Mark from Luminous Cloud sent in an interesting and unique offer for the Low End Box community. This first-time offer from Luminous features a 2GB cloud-like dedicated resource driven service for just $9/month, normally $25/month. Seeing as this is the first time Luminous has been highligted on Low End Box it’s important to note that their WHOIS is public and their terms of service is available here: http://www.luminouscloud.com/tos. Accepted methods of payment include PayPal and Credit Card (through a PayPal gateway).

According to Mark this offer is especially unique because this is a true virtualization service powered by Microsoft Hyper-V, No Container VMs! Dedicated Resources, Tier III Data Center in Kansas City, MO with 99.99% Network Uptime, No Overselling, Limited Quantity Available, Offer is Exclusive to Low End Box Users

In their own words:

Luminous is a Diversified Media Data Services, LLC brand (http://www.dmdsmanaged.com) a leading Midwest based provider of managed web, email and application hosting, colocation and data center services, hybrid IT and private cloud solutions for niche markets. Our Luminous brand offers affordable unmanaged hosting services for blogs, startups and small businesses – What makes us unique? We do not offer container based VPS, instead, our Cloud VPS services are powered by true Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization with dedicated resources, guaranteed. We offer great customer support with actual 24x7x365 availability.

Read more for the package signup links, more datacenter and network information and node specifications.

As always, feedback is welcome. Let us know about your experiences with Luminous Cloud!

Luminous Cloud will install the OS of your choice, full root/admin access. Windows available with your own license, Plesk panel available for $5.00 a month or $50.00 a year. 1 IPv4 address, IPv6 available as needed

I'm Jon Biloh and I own LowEndBox and LowEndTalk. I've spent my nearly 20 year career in IT building companies and now I'm excited to focus on building and enhancing the community at LowEndBox and LowEndTalk.

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We really appreciate Low End Box for posting our offer! We’re very excited to be in business with such a great community of developers and IT professionals. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!

We have found that a lot of potential subscribers think they will use more bandwidth than they actually do. Additional bandwidth is absolutely available, and honestly the limits are loosely enforced, but we want our packages to be realistic and true to our no-overselling promise.

As for Hyper-V, catering to the “Low End Box” market is a new venture for us with the purchase of Luminous. Our parent company, DMDS, specializes in enterprise-grade hosted services for Midsize businesses, primarily Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery, so our company has always used Hyper-V and our staff are experts with it. It’s true virtualization built for enterprise and we wanted to bring that quality of product to the more affordable market. Before Luminous, we’ve had around 100 *nix based VMs in service, in addition to countless Windows VMs, performance has always been great, but keeping ahead of capacity is important.

Dedi Promo, I’d be interested in hearing more about your Linux on Hyper-V experiences, I know you mentioned OVZ and KVM, two very different products as OpenVZ are containers which is a shared virtualization, KVM uses true virtualization in a sense, but is still considered a Type 2 Hypervisor. Typically performance on Type 1 (running directly on system hardware) will trump Type 2 performance, regardless of the OS. Were you able to find the root cause of the performance issue you were having?

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